Sunday, 23 January 2011

Awakening

The sun trembled of its hot rayssensitive to the cold, he remained there, doing nothinghe looked at the world in flamesthe earth burningthe hell in front of his eyes and the flowers' as impure as the skieswhen they ejaculate the psalms of the divineavenger.

It is like a flashback:a brother at his sidesseem to wait patientlybefore the scream lay them down.Marie, you still suffer from these infamies,Joe shakes you such a long time, so often,flowers of the fieldsthe songs put the spell on yougo back to Consecrated Land,go back into the blue cave,the children will show you the way.

In the blue caveI am lying down on a bed of straw,I am looking at the vault,the solidified drawings,the traces of my depressed ancestors.

The house burns.The brain explodes.I don't want to stay here anymore

Walter Ruhlmann Mamoudzou,Mayotte, France

Walter Ruhlmann was born in 1974 in France. He currently lives in Mamoudzou, Mayotte where he works as an English teacher. Walter lived in England from 1995 to 1997. He began publishing Mauvaise graine, a literary magazine, in 1996, now know as mgvesion2>datura. Back in France, he has carried on publishing and writing mostly poetry, although he has published short stories in several French-language magazines. Walter is the author of several poetry booklets and published poems in magazines such as Magnapoets, Poetic Diversity, Aesthetica Magazine, Ygdrasil, Above Ground Testing. He edited and translated poems for the bilingual free verse and form section for the anniversary issue of Magnapoets in January 2011.

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Call for Submissions

I am planning a new issue of mgversion2>datura (the 68th) scheduled for July/August 2011 and it will be centred on the literature of the Indian ocean where I live now.I intend to span as many continents and as many genres as possible and to add up to the contacts I have already made here in the French speaking area, I would like to call for submissions from poets, storytellers, playwrights, artists... from all the countries bordered by the ocean: India, the eastern coast of Africa, the western coast of Australia (Perth) and the islands of course.

I have no other prerogatives than receiving texts and artwork by writers and artists from this region of the globe by mid June 2011.As far as they believe their works can fit in, I might take it. If I don't think it does fit in, I won't. It is as simple as that.

All submissions must be sent at this address mgversion2@free.fr. More information on the blog mgversion2datura.hautetfort.com.

About the mag

Ancient Heart Magazine is here again! Now based in Sydney, Australia. After a number of years of publication I decided a while ago to give it a miss. But, poetry being poetry, I couldn't keep away and now here we are again; all new and bright and fresh. In a slightly different format, namely that of the blog.

Submission Guidelines:Leave a comment on the latest blog post/poem containing one poem, your pen name, home town, country and optional email address. In due course your poem may or may not appear on the blog/mag. I will not enter into any correspondence or acknowledge receipt of submissions or feel obliged to answer any other queries. I just want to get as many great poems as possible out there.

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